For as long as I can remember I have disliked silence. I was always listening to music whether it was while I was driving, studying, or going for a walk. Lord only know how many shower radios I have had. I was just not a fan of the silence. It would drive me crazy, just ask my college roommates.
Then I went on a little adventure called the World Race. Where I lived, worked, ate, and did life with 5 other girls. I could not get away from them. So silence was rare, especially in South East Asia, where there are sounds of traffic, drums, people, animals, etc. I even prayed that I would get sick while I was in India, so that I could just spend some time alone.
Silence was even rarer when I was in Nicaragua doing life with 14 other people, all living in a little "house" with 2 1/2 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms, if you can even call it that. Silence and privacy were both rare (the bathroom the girls shared didn't even have a door).
I've been back in the US for about 6 months now, and something astonishing has happened. I've been driving around in silence. Which is so weird for me. Part of the reason I wanted an iPod in the first place was so that I could listen to different artists without having to always be switching out cd's (which can be dangerous). It's amazing what I've been learning on these silent drives. 1 Kings tells us that God's voice is a still small voice. It's very hard to hear It when we are bombarding our ear waves with music or talk shows or even our friends whom we have called on our cell phones, just so that there would be no silence.
I once heard a speaker say that He loved listening to Christian music while He was driving, he said it was like having another quiet time in his day. Which I totally agree with, but maybe sometimes, we should have a quiet, quiet time, and just turn everything off and just talk with the Lord, and listen.
Challenge: Embrace the silence and tell me what you learned. :-)
Then I went on a little adventure called the World Race. Where I lived, worked, ate, and did life with 5 other girls. I could not get away from them. So silence was rare, especially in South East Asia, where there are sounds of traffic, drums, people, animals, etc. I even prayed that I would get sick while I was in India, so that I could just spend some time alone.
Silence was even rarer when I was in Nicaragua doing life with 14 other people, all living in a little "house" with 2 1/2 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms, if you can even call it that. Silence and privacy were both rare (the bathroom the girls shared didn't even have a door).
I've been back in the US for about 6 months now, and something astonishing has happened. I've been driving around in silence. Which is so weird for me. Part of the reason I wanted an iPod in the first place was so that I could listen to different artists without having to always be switching out cd's (which can be dangerous). It's amazing what I've been learning on these silent drives. 1 Kings tells us that God's voice is a still small voice. It's very hard to hear It when we are bombarding our ear waves with music or talk shows or even our friends whom we have called on our cell phones, just so that there would be no silence.
I once heard a speaker say that He loved listening to Christian music while He was driving, he said it was like having another quiet time in his day. Which I totally agree with, but maybe sometimes, we should have a quiet, quiet time, and just turn everything off and just talk with the Lord, and listen.
Challenge: Embrace the silence and tell me what you learned. :-)
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